tells the story of how religion
& theater can clash over a playwrights' text

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SURVIVAL part
1

Reflections on measures to keep the theatre
alive - some desperate some humorous

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RHETT
BUTLER

Theatre Dog / Theatre Critic / Fund-Raising
Pawn

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MEMORYTHON

email memories from a variety
of NPT vets along with pictures

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SANDBLASTING THE
BUILDING

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PHOTOS

random photos from productions and theater
activities

that I will upload now and
again

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During our first season, we were sternly told, “You know, you’ll always have your hat in
your hands.” That came from an elderly woman named Lucy Kennedy, the frail and genteel woman who was Zelda Fichandler’s head script reader at Arena Stage … the 800 pound gorilla of Washington Theatre
institutions at the time. “You’ll always have your hat in your hands,” I remember Lucy telling us. So? We wanted to do theatre. Who cared if being nonprofit meant an endless of process of
fund-raising. The fundraising sometime brought more laughs than some of the plays we produced. For more on fundraising, click on "fundraising (duh) and take a look at "For Lack of a Pie
..."